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When contributing to Rhea, how do you picture your audience? How does this affect your posting?

  • I think that probably 90% of the users of Rhea are Purdue students. The few that come across Rhea are probably just Google-searching a potential candidate (be it for graduate school, a job, etc.) and that person happened to post on Rhea with their full name. I find it very unlikely an employer will scope out Rhea for "insightful posts" and then contact a student, because doing so would require the employer to search Purdue's directory for usernames (assuming the Rhea user even signed his/her username). In short (or perhaps rather long in my case), I don't "hold my tongue" when posting on Rhea, because I think by and large only your classmates will really view the material. --rscheidt
  • I post whatever I feel is appropriate for the topic I am posting under. I doubt many people actually read what you write anyways. I did stumble onto Spring 09s 438 rhea page while studying for 438 exam 2. That was interesting. --weim
  • I think it does not matter when to contribute to Rhea. I choose to do it at the end of the semester because I can think of what I have done for one semester. I can picture myself better. It is a good creation where students can help each other without knowing each other. Also, because a lot of users are Purdue students, information posted on the Rhea is interesting to me. Every time I post something on the Rhea, I do understand anybody can read it. I personally do not pay much attention to the audience. I think Rhea, as an open source, should encourage students to say what they want to say but not being offensive or against the law. But maybe I should point out it is only my personal opinion and not always right.--pan11
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